Paracelsus
Paracelsus
- Description
- A portrait of Paracelsus (Philippus Theophrastus Aureolus Bombastus von Hohenheim). Paracelsus (1493-1541), was an alchemist, physician, astrologer, and reformer of therapeutics. He pioneered the use of chemicals and minerals in medicine, was the first to used the word zinc for the element zinc, is sometimes called the father of toxicology and is credited as providing the first clinical/scientific mention of the unconscious.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Object Name
- depicted
- Paracelsus
- Physical Description
- paper (overall material)
- ink (overall material)
- white (overall color)
- black (overall color)
- etching (overall production method/technique)
- Measurements
- image: 14.2 cm x 11.1 cm; 5 9/16 in x 4 3/8 in
- overall: 17.1 cm x 13.1 cm; 6 3/4 in x 5 3/16 in
- ID Number
- 1991.0664.0059
- accession number
- 1991.0664
- catalog number
- M-06233
- collector/donor number
- SAP 926
- Credit Line
- Gift of American Pharmaceutical Association and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
- subject
- Portraits
- Pharmacy
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- Medicine and Science: Medicine
- Religion
- Art
- European Apothecary
- Data Source
- National Museum of American History
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